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    Ode

    Walking with Walt Whitman Through Calgary's Eastside on a Winter Day

    Blue-white afternoon. The Bow river churns and smokes

    as the city rumbles, economy chokes and bundled homeless

    build cardboard homes in the snow. Yes, Walt, this is the new

    world, and how often has your huge, burled form lengthened

    beside me as we strode through parking lots, the filth and ice

    of streets? Great seer, I listen for your relentless...

    Rosemary Griebel


    Ode on Solitude

    Happy the man, whose wish and care

    A few paternal acres bound,

    Content to breathe his native air,

    In his own ground.

    Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,

    Whose flocks supply him with attire,

    Whose trees in summer yield him shade,

    ...

    Alexander Pope
    1688-1744

    To Autumn

    Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

    Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

    Conspiring with him how to load and bless

    With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

    To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,

    And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

    ...

    John Keats
    1795-1821

    Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes

    ’Twas on a lofty vase’s side,

    Where China’s gayest art had dyed

    The azure flowers that blow;

    Demurest of the tabby kind,

    The pensive Selima, reclined,

    Gazed on the lake below.

    Her conscious tail her joy declared;

    The fair round face, the snowy beard,

    The...

    Thomas Gray
    1716-1771

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